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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerability (USN-1825-1)

High Nessus Plugin ID 66468

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

An flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's perf_events interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to escalate privileges on the system.Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.